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500GB SATA II is just a hard drive type<br />
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RAID 1 is a mirroring system<br />
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to use RAID 1 you would have to have 2 x 500GB HDD's<br />
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RAID copys your data from 1 to the other - i.e 2 x 500gb hdds with raid 1 will just show as 1 single hdd of 500gb as the other one is a constant mirror so if one fails you have a instant replacement
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500GB SATA II is just a hard drive type

RAID 1 is a mirroring system

to use RAID 1 you would have to have 2 x 500GB HDD's

RAID copys your data from 1 to the other - i.e 2 x 500gb hdds with raid 1 will just show as 1 single hdd of 500gb as the other one is a constant mirror so if one fails you have a instant replacement

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<a href="http://www.tech-faq.com/raid.shtml" rel="ugc">http://www.tech-faq.com/raid.shtml</a><br />
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This shows you what RAID is and does and the different types<br />
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SATA II is just a HDD type like IDE etc<br />
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SATA II is fine but raid you will require more than 1 HDD
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http://www.tech-faq.com/raid.shtml [http://www.tech-faq.com/raid.shtml]

This shows you what RAID is and does and the different types

SATA II is just a HDD type like IDE etc

SATA II is fine but raid you will require more than 1 HDD

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We are planning to buy a Quad Core web server for our newly starting web hosting company,can we go with 500GB SATA II or RAID 1? What will be the difference?
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We are planning to buy a Quad Core web server for our newly starting web hosting company,can we go with 500GB SATA II or RAID 1? What will be the difference?

We are planning to buy a Quad Core web server where we are installing with 500GB HDD can we go for SATA II or RAID 1?

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